Slender Bedstraw (Galium pumilum) is not a big plant. Its thin stalks go in all directions and blend in with surrounding vegetation. But its little cross-shaped flowers are a luminescent white, so luminescent that you have to look at it.
It likes dry limestone soils and sunny places. In a rich meadow with high, luxuriant vegetation you will not find it.
It is a typical bedstraw and shows the typical features of the Rubiaceae family it belongs to. A crown of long pointed leaves at everynode, small flowers like four-pointed stars in loose panicles, supple stalks.
It starts flowering in May and we can enjoy it for still a while, it goes on until the droughts of summer really set in.